D.R. Morris Cup - First Round:

 






 

Sutton steers Neyland through with brilliant unbeaten century

 

Neyland (176 for 3) beat Cresselly (132 for 5) by 44 runs

 
Umpires: Jon Willington & Dave Bonner
Scorers: John Laugharne and Cerys Jenkins
 
Duggie Morris Cup holders Neyland proved too strong for Cresselly in arguably the top tussle of the first round as both teams were without several key players but a superb undefeated century by Neyland No 3 Ashley Sutton ensured their comfortable passage to the second round.
 
Sutton came to the wicket for the third ball of the game after Paul Murray had hit the first ball for a boundary but was bowled by Tom Murphy from the second delivery – and Murphy also shifted Ross Hardy (10), who looked in good nick but watched a screamer of a cover drive pouched way above his head by 16 year old Charlie Arthur to give Murphy figures of 2 for 33.
 
But Dai Davies continued his good form as he and Sutton ran really well between the wickets and punished anything loose as they increased the run rate substantially to take the score well into three figures before Davies departed, adjudged lbw to Arthur, for 33 (1 for 32), including four boundaries.
 
Sutton smashed four big sixes, including one straight hit that smashed against a garage door way beyond the boundary and had Neyland old timers scratching their heads about when they had seen a bigger six.
 
Nathan Banner also proved an admirable partner as he also ran well, especially in the final over, with a three that gave Sutton the strike on 98 and the chance to reach a ton, although he was dropped off a difficult boundary chance.
 
Cresselly had the early boost of a sparkling innings by another talented teenager in Morgan Lewis, whose 36 came from 12 deliveries and contained two fours and four big sixes, but they were unable to maintain anything like the necessary scoring rate after Lewis departed, bowled by Patrick Hannon.
 
They lost Charlie Arthur (8) and Iwan Izzard (9), bowled respectively by Nathan banner and Andrew Miller – and banner struck again by having  Tom Murphy (4), caught by Sutton to give him fine figures of 2 for 9.
 
Ryan Lewis belted some big boundaries in his top score of 45 not out and Neilson Cole chipped in with a late undefeated 12 but Hannon (1 for 15), Jack John (1 for 16) and Miller (1 for 20) helped ease Neyland over a big hurdle.




















 
 
 

Kiff continues his good form

 

Llangwm (123 for 3) beat Pembroke Dock (119 for 9) by 7 wickets

 
Umpires: Glyn Cole & Gareth Brace
Scorer: Janice Brick (Llangwm)
 
Llangwm skipper Matthew Kiff continued his run of good form as he followed his splendid 133 on Saturday with top score of 54 against Pembroke Dock alongside a 3 for 20 haul that proved vital in the final analysis.
 
Kiff’s bowling haul came alongside other decent spells by Steve Mills (1 for 24), Luke Brock (2 for 9) and Ollie Davies (2 for 10) as The Dock were never able to get on top after batting first, despite a solid 35 from Rhys Daley as their top score. There was also 27 apiece for Jake Davies and George Smith but they lost wickets at key times and no-one else ever really got going.
 
A Llangwm target of 120 to win was thought to be eminently reachable and that is exactly how things turned out as Steve Mills struck 34 and Kiff stroked his boundary-laden half century so that although there were wickets for Neil Gregory and Rob Hearne there were few alarms and Llangwm will now play Llanrhian at Pill parks next Wednesday evening.





 
 

Llanrhian go through on a walk-over

 

Llanrhian v Llechryd

 
Disappointingly at such an early stage of the season, Llechryd were unable to raise a team to travel to Llanrhian and so have to withdraw from the competition.